How do you create a fantastical world based on African folklore and mythology?

Marlon James will tell us about his new novel, Black Leopard Red Wolf.

What hard lessons do you learn doing other people's housework?

Stephanie Land will be here to talk about her best-selling book, Made, Hardwork, Low

Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive.

Plus, our critics will talk about the latest and literary criticism.

This is the Bookerview podcast from The New York Times.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Marlon James joins us now.

He is the Booker Prize-winning author of a brief history of seven killings and other

novels.

And his latest is called Black Leopard Red Wolf.

It's reviewed this week in the Times by Michko Kakotani.

Marlon, thanks so much for being here.

Thanks for having me.

So, this book, people are sort of whipping out these descriptions, calling it the African

Game of Thrones, calling it a magical Wakanda, calling it comic books, meets fantasy,

epic, meets.

But, how do you describe it?

I describe it as the book I always wanted to write.

You know, I describe it as almost a result of detective work.

One of the things we take for granted is that so many of us already have our mythologies.

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